[3] Early leaders included Michelene Wandor, Martha Boesing, Caryl Churchill and The Women's Theater Group (renamed as Sphinx Theatre Company in 1999) in London.
"[2] The Women's Movement resulted in feminist theatre around the U.S., in England, and in other parts of the world in the 1970s, and it has continued to be a global genre ever since.
Numerous theatres tend to focus on specific cultural performance traditions, such as La Luna Productions, which does modern works with primarily female characters, but uses the Japanese theatrical style Kabuki.
Nightwood was not originally founded as a feminist theatre but eventually garnered a reputation for producing female-centred shows.
[citation needed] Some of India's feminist theatre companies include Jana Natya Manch and Sampurna Trust.
[19] Many influential British feminist plays received their first performances including but not limited to Claire Luckham and Chris Bond's Scum: Death, Destruction and Dirty Washing (1976), Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom (1976), and Pam Gems’s Queen Christina (1977).
[5] Since its onset, there have been additional direct challenges relating to funding, media backlash, and fit within existing theater contexts.
The goals of feminist theatre continue to be extreme, including exploration of social injustices and inequalities in order to identify transformative possibilities and solutions.